Finance Redefined: The $500 million bet on ETH 2.0 making waves! June 24-July 1
We don’t know the identity of the whale that’s deposited a half billion into Ethereum, but a look at the chain tells us a whole lot about them. Whales can be bashful and clever creatures, but when you manage to catch one in action it’s a sight to behold — consider, for instance, the single entity responsible for depositing 100k ETH into the Eth 2.0 deposit contract from 133 different addresses last week.Deposits into the ETH 2.0 staking contract have been picking up as of late, with 100k ETH pouring into the Eth 2 deposit contract on a single day last week. It caught the attention of the....
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WAVES, a decentralized platform which uses custom Blockchain tokens to represent value, has finished ICO, raising over $16.000.000 USD in Bitcoin. CoinTelegraph spoke to Alexander Rugaev, Chief Business Development Officer at WAVES, about the features of the platform, Yobit failure and the Wave coin soon to be available on exchanges. CT: How much Bitcoin was raised? Alexander Rugaev: WAVES finished ICO in June 2016 and raised over $16.000.000 USD in Bitcoins. It is considered to be the biggest amount in BTC even compared to Etherium. CT: How does the Waves platform work? AR: Put simply....
Near protocol allocates $800 million to its DeFi ecosystem, and Immunefi raises $5.5 million to advance its security service — all of this and more coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter.The DeFi space was full of fundraising this week. Read on to discover where the venture capital firm led by Reddit’s co-founder is making notable investments.What you’re about to read is the smaller version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week, subscribe to our....
A Waves proposal that aims to solve the liquidity problem of Vires.Finance has passed after gaining the support of its community. The Waves (WAVES) community has supported a governance proposal to revive the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Vires.Finance after its liquidity crisis. The vote aims to stabilize the project and compensate the users who were affected. In April, Neutrino (USDN), a stablecoin running on the Waves platform, depegged from the dollar. This led to a series of user withdrawals within the platform, eventually ending in a liquidity shortage where users....
WAVES was once again higher on Friday, with prices now gaining by over 120% in the last seven days. While WAVES soared, XLM also had a stellar showing, as it moved closer to a three-week high on Friday.
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While crypto markets have been either falling or consolidating over the past week, WAVES has continued to surge, climbing by over 120% in that time.
On Friday, prices rose for a seventh consecutive session, hitting an intraday peak of $10.47 in the process.
This move comes as prices marginally passed resistance at $10.45, nearing their highest level....
Waves founder Sasha Ivanov says Alameda Research is behind the ongoing WAVES price decline. Neutrino Dollar (USDN), a stablecoin issued through Waves-backed Neutrino protocol, lost its U.S. dollar-peg on April 4 amid speculations that it could become "insolvent" in the future.USDN plunges 15% despite WAVES backingUSDN dropped to as low as $0.822 on April 4 with its market capitalization also diving to $824.25 million, down 14% from its year-to-date high of $960.25 million.Interestingly, the stablecoin's plunge occurred despite Neutrino's claims of backing its $1-peg via what's called "over....